Practical R for Biologists: an Introduction - CABI.org

About the book

A new textbook showing beginners how to use the free programming language R for fundamental biostatistical analysis, graphical display, and experimental design. The book takes a simple step-by-step approach to give a good grounding in the use of R for undergraduate/beginning postgraduate biology students.

This text is supported by r code examples, data files and exercise answers.

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Data files

All datafiles zip file

ActiniaXYdata.csv

Append_NG_butterfly_transect.txt

British_ladybirds.txt

Burial_Register_HOPE.xlsx

Caribb_widespread.csv

CHAP14_Sirindhornia_count.csv

Chapter_14_Malone_gobies.csv

CornBorer_1992.txt

Corsican_blue_tit.csv

Doi_woodpeckers.txt

European_corn_borer_2003.txt

fledge_number.csv

HOPE_Date_Order_Table_1.csv

KaengKrachan_woodpeckers.txt

KhaoYai_woodpeckers.txt

Monilobracon.fas

Oriental_Pied_Hornbill.jpg

Oriental_Pied_Hornbill.tiff

Panamanian_cycads.txt

Panamanian_cycads_colon.txt

Passiflora_visits.csv

Pet-Cats-Australia.csv

PNG_transects.txt

PrimersTable.csv

PrimersTable.txt

PrimersTable.xlsx

Thailand_Border.csv

trophic.links.csv

Tuatara_extra.txt

Tunjai_regeneration.txt

Tunjai_regeneration.xlsx

Wildlife at Doi Inthanon National Park.pdf

Wildlife at Khao Yai.txt

Wildlike at Kaeng Krachan.txt

Wright_y_Muller_Landau_2006.csv

Exercises and Answers

All exercises and answers zip file

ExerciseBox_4.1_adjusting_friends_names_arrows

Result_4.1_friends_heights

ExerciseBox_4.2_fill_matrix_with_ragged_data

Result_4.2_ragged

ExerciseBox_6.1_beaver temperature

Result_6.1_beaver_temperature

ExerciseBox_6.2_bryophyte_barplot_exercise

Result_6.2_green_bryophyte

ExerciseBox_6.3_piechart_exercise_solutions

ExerciseBox_7.1_Fitch_mammal_skull_data

Result_7.1_Fitch_plot

Result_7.1_ggplot_mammal_skull_palate

ExerciseBox_8.1_Venn_exercise

Result_8.1.1_4_venn_circles

Result_8.1-3_coloured ellipse_Venn

ExerciseBox_10.1.1_faithful

Result_10.1.1_Faithful

ExerciseBox_10.1.2_Odds_ratio_exercise

ExerciseBox_10.2_SexRatio_deer

ExerciseBox_11.1_mammal_skull_linear_model

ExerciseBox_11.2.1_Krill and dip

ExerciseBox_12.1 _cardinal_lay_date

Result_12.1_cardinal_lay_date_model2

ExerciseBox_12.2_Passiflora_quasibinomial

Result_12.2_passiflora_text_angles precise

ExerciseBox_13.1_seed_establishment

Result_13.1_seedestablishment_model plots

ExerciseBox_14.1_garlic_Aspergillus_plot

ExerciseBox_14.2_Sirindhornia_pollinaria

ExerciseBox_15.1_menarche_age

Result_15.1_menarche

ExerciseBox_15.2_snails

ExerciseBox_16.1_stratified

Result_16.1_stratified_sample

ExerciseBox_17.1_Iris_species_data

Result_17.1.1_iris_PCAs

Result_17.1.2_scatterplot

Result_17.1.3_scatterplot(PCA1 vs 2)

ExerciseBox_18.1_Species_Area_islands

Result_18.1_Sunda_Islands

ExerciseBox_18.2_Styracaceae

ExerciseBox_19.1_leukaemia

Result_19.1.1_leukaemia

ExerciseBox_20.1_Corsican_Blue_tit

ExerciseBox_20.2_Hope_age_at_death_by_sex

Result_20.2_Hope_Burials

ExerciseBox_20.3_European_corn_borer

Result_20.3_European_corn_borer

ExerciseBox_21.1_cobra_map

Result_21.1_Naja_map

ExerciseBox_21.2_Australian_cat_roaming

Result_21.2_ozzy_cats_1

Result_21.2_ozzy_cats_2

ExerciseBox_22.1_tidying_DNA-dataset

ExerciseBox_22.2_capital_genus_names

ExerciseBox_23.1_Tetrapod_dated_phylogeny

Result_23.1_Tetrapod_dated_phylogeny

ExerciseBox_24.1_revcomp

ExerciseBox_24.2_pairing

ExerciseBox_24.3_amino_acid_translation

ExerciseBox_25.1_random_WeissPlot

Result_25.1.1_random_points

Result_25.1.2_100_random_Weiss

Result_25.1.3_accounting for pdd

ExerciseBox_26.1

Result_26.1_host_parasitoid_4_plots

ExerciseBox_26.2.1

Result_26.2.1_hostParasitoid_ratio

ExerciseBox_26.2.2txt

Result_26.2_population_variance with generations

ExerciseBox_26.3.1_allele decline1

Result_26.3.1_allele_decline

ExerciseBox_26.3.2_allele decline_diploid

ExerciseBox_27.1_smokers

ExerciseBox_30.1_compare_normal_binomial

Result_30.1_compare_distributions

Perfect R code for examples

All working r code zip file

CHAP4_friends_R_code

CHAP4_ragged.dataRcode

CHAP6_bryophyte_barplot_R_code

CHAP6_bryophytes_R_code

CHAP6_cameratrap_histograms_R_code

CHAP6_Circlize_mammals_R_code

CHAP6_Dipterocarp_ants_R_code

CHAP6_Hornbill_foraging_barplot_besideTrue_R_code

CHAP6_Marsh_pie_chart

CHAP6_Metacercaria_R_code

CHAP6_Ommatidia_R_code

CHAP6_view_25_pch_R_code

CHAP6_Wright-y-Muller-Landau-2006 _log_axis_R_code

CHAP7_ant_leafbeetle_damage_models_R_code

CHAP7_GGscatter_Corynopus_R_code

CHAP8_home _made_Venn_R_code

CHAP8_Venn_woodpecker_R_code

CHAP9_human_footprint_Marsh_R_code

CHAP10_Box_whisker_ant_damage_normtest_R_code

CHAP10_chisqu_Clonorchis_infection_R_code

CHAP10_frog_boxplot_sexes_R_code

CHAP10_HardyWeinberg_moth_R_code

CHAP10_HardyWeinberg_plot_R_code

CHAP10_PAOD_chisq_R_code

CHAP11_AntilButterflies_Lomolino

CHAP11_Ants_burnt_unburnt_R_code

CHAP11_Channa_snakehead_growth_R_code

CHAP11_island_rodents_R_code

CHAP11_Knor_krill_O2consump_R_code

CHAP11_leaf_beetle_damage_R_code

CHAP11_Lucanidae_boxplot_R_code

CHAP11_Ochlero_R_code

CHAP11_weaver_ant_red_green_R_code

CHAP12_Cardinal_Poisson_R_code

CHAP12_Passiflora_R_code

CHAP13_Tunjai_regeneration_R_code

CHAP14_ANCOVA_Asperillus_garlic_R_code

CHAP14_Sirindhornia_R_code

CHAP15_psyllid_R_code

CHAP15_snail_binomial

CHAP16_Thai_bees_Montecarlo_R_code

CHAP17_Iris_PCA_R_code

CHAP17_oyster_allozyme_PCA_R_code

CHAP18_brokenstick_Cocc_R_code

CHAP18_Fisherfit_PNG_butterflies_R_code

CHAP18_PNG_butterfly_species_accum_R_code

CHAP18_simpson_shannon_R_code

CHAP18_Styracaceae_brokenstick_R_code

CHAP19_Atuo_Killdeer_survival_R_Code

CHAP20_cornborer_R_code

CHAP20_Hope_cemeteryR_code

CHAP20_Jonkers&Kucera

CHAP21_DismoBhutanitis_GBIFF_R_code

CHAP21_Maptools_Butterflies_per_country_R_code

CHAP21_placidus_R_code

CHAP21_rworldmap_R_code

CHAP22_fish_get_umbra_R_code

CHAP22_process_subfamily_names_in_text_R_code

CHAP22_put_MRS_first_R_code

CHAP22_suffixes_etc_R_code

CHAP22_text_manip_R_code

CHAP23_Ape_and_Phytools_R_code

CHAP23_Tuatara_R_code

CHAP24_DNA_data_R_code

CHAP24_prettiying_Xenarcha_matrix_R_code

CHAP25_Actinia_spacing_R_code

CHAP26_Beddington_R_code

CHAP26_Geneticdrift_R_code

CHAP26_Ricker_R_code

CHAP26_spatial_parasitoid_model_R_code

CHAP27_tapply_R_code

CHAP28_Cheddar_R_code

CHAP28_food_web_R_code

CHAP29_jpeg_image_rasterImage_R_code

CHAP30_Poisson_R_code

Perfect R code for examples

All working r code zip file

CHAP4_friends_R_code

CHAP4_ragged.dataRcode

CHAP6_bryophyte_barplot_R_code

CHAP6_bryophytes_R_code

CHAP6_cameratrap_histograms_R_code

CHAP6_Circlize_mammals_R_code

CHAP6_Dipterocarp_ants_R_code

CHAP6_Hornbill_foraging_barplot_besideTrue_R_code

CHAP6_Marsh_pie_chart

CHAP6_Metacercaria_R_code

CHAP6_Ommatidia_R_code

CHAP6_view_25_pch_R_code

CHAP6_Wright-y-Muller-Landau-2006 _log_axis_R_code

CHAP7_ant_leafbeetle_damage_models_R_code

CHAP7_GGscatter_Corynopus_R_code

CHAP8_home _made_Venn_R_code

CHAP8_Venn_woodpecker_R_code

CHAP9_human_footprint_Marsh_R_code

CHAP10_Box_whisker_ant_damage_normtest_R_code

CHAP10_chisqu_Clonorchis_infection_R_code

CHAP10_frog_boxplot_sexes_R_code

CHAP10_HardyWeinberg_moth_R_code

CHAP10_HardyWeinberg_plot_R_code

CHAP10_PAOD_chisq_R_code

CHAP11_AntilButterflies_Lomolino

CHAP11_Ants_burnt_unburnt_R_code

CHAP11_Channa_snakehead_growth_R_code

CHAP11_island_rodents_R_code

CHAP11_Knor_krill_O2consump_R_code

CHAP11_leaf_beetle_damage_R_code

CHAP11_Lucanidae_boxplot_R_code

CHAP11_Ochlero_R_code

CHAP11_weaver_ant_red_green_R_code

CHAP12_Cardinal_Poisson_R_code

CHAP12_Passiflora_R_code

CHAP13_Tunjai_regeneration_R_code

CHAP14_ANCOVA_Asperillus_garlic_R_code

CHAP14_Sirindhornia_R_code

CHAP15_psyllid_R_code

CHAP15_snail_binomial

CHAP16_Thai_bees_Montecarlo_R_code

CHAP17_Iris_PCA_R_code

CHAP17_oyster_allozyme_PCA_R_code

CHAP18_brokenstick_Cocc_R_code

CHAP18_Fisherfit_PNG_butterflies_R_code

CHAP18_PNG_butterfly_species_accum_R_code

CHAP18_simpson_shannon_R_code

CHAP18_Styracaceae_brokenstick_R_code

CHAP19_Atuo_Killdeer_survival_R_Code

CHAP20_cornborer_R_code

CHAP20_Hope_cemeteryR_code

CHAP20_Jonkers&Kucera

CHAP21_DismoBhutanitis_GBIFF_R_code

CHAP21_Maptools_Butterflies_per_country_R_code

CHAP21_placidus_R_code

CHAP21_rworldmap_R_code

CHAP22_fish_get_umbra_R_code

CHAP22_process_subfamily_names_in_text_R_code

CHAP22_put_MRS_first_R_code

CHAP22_suffixes_etc_R_code

CHAP22_text_manip_R_code

CHAP23_Ape_and_Phytools_R_code

CHAP23_Tuatara_R_code

CHAP24_DNA_data_R_code

CHAP24_prettiying_Xenarcha_matrix_R_code

CHAP25_Actinia_spacing_R_code

CHAP26_Beddington_R_code

CHAP26_Geneticdrift_R_code

CHAP26_Ricker_R_code

CHAP26_spatial_parasitoid_model_R_code

CHAP27_tapply_R_code

CHAP28_Cheddar_R_code

CHAP28_food_web_R_code

CHAP29_jpeg_image_rasterImage_R_code

CHAP30_Poisson_R_code

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